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DateAdded	Artist	Title	Format	Price	Label	Description
3/8/2008	Ian W	Oslo Solo	CDR	$12.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Ian W is Ian Wadley. He was in an Austrailian band that came over here and played shows a few years ago, total gutter garage rock. Here Ian performs in Oslo solo, hence the title, improvisational guitar, bluesy and bleaky soundtrack music, this reminds me of a ton of stuff, even Haino, at his most pluckery. Limited to 60 copies."
12/31/2003	Icewater Scandal	Icewater Scandal	CD	$9.99	The Social Registry	This was actually a self-titled release by AM Radio but they were forced to change their name in early 2003 (when they became Icewater Scandal). "Straight out of Brooklyn via Upstate New York, New Jersey, and Delaware comes AM Radio. Formed in the wilderness years of the late ‘90s, AM Radio combed through their influences of ‘60s experimental sounds and ‘80s indie rock verve to create a new vibe for the new century. This four piece challenges the traditional notion of finding a specific sound and sticking with it -choosing instead to mine for different inspirations without letting any one of them over take the band’s vision. The five songs on their self-titled debut E.P. were recorded and originally self released by the band in 1999. Finally being re-released now, this work presents the power and confidence of the band. At the same time, the music demonstrates the care taken to avoid overwhelming the listener with their aural arsenal. The E.P. provides a taste of their noise/pop rock sensibility (especially on the final track ‘Beezwax’, their eighteen-minute long day’s journey into night). It was this sound that got the attention of Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, who produced their first full-length album."
1/13/2004	Icewater Scandal	Live At The Seawitch	CDR	$9.99	The Social Registry	"Another special treat from our CMJ showcase: a limited edition CDR of a live performance at The Seawitch, a hardcore club on the west coast of Staten Island. We can't remember how Icewater Scandal ended up playing at a hardcore club on Staten Island but tragedy hit the band just about a week before this performance: Travis cut a big piece of his thumb off at the recycling plant he was working at. Instead of bass he played a sampling keyboard and the band wrote material especially for the occasion. Includes a great cover of Free Advice by The Great Society." Numbered edition of 50 copies - now out of print.
5/7/2004	Icewater Scandal	No Handle	DBL LP	$12.99	Social Registry	“Gathering moss is not for Icewater Scandal; they are constantly percolating with ideas. They take what they have accomplished before redefining it and then heading for new horizons. Their first album travels over new territory from their debut EP released under the AM Radio moniker. Though still filtered through their concept of taking 60¹s experimental music a la the Dream Syndicate et al, and merging that with the elan of 80’s indie rock; No Handle is at times more muscular and other times more cerebral, without losing any flair. Part of this can be attributed to their producer Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Recorded and mixed at SY¹s studio, Echo Canyon, there has been great care in getting the sound just right. Recorded, mixed and mastered all on analog equipment was a decision that allowed no ones and zeros to come between what was played and how the band wanted it heard. This foursome go from the almost jaunty Muddy Blue to the ambient heaviness of Shiny Gold to the catchy groove of Banana Ssplat without showing any seams. They are willing to let their intuition lead them, no looking over shoulders. It is a confidence that is born by the music. No Handle is sure to also carry you along with it.”
3/27/2004	Idea Fire Company	Rags To Riches	C90	$6.99	Pineapple Tapes	“IFCO storm back to the front with our first release since Anti-Natural. Rags To Riches features the new quartet line up, with Jessi Swenson and Meara O'Reilly joining Karla and myself. This is a taster for the upcoming Stranded LP.”
11/25/2003	Iditarod	Yuletide	DBL CD	$18.99	Camera Obscura	"One of the ways in which the Rhode Island psych-folk duo Iditarod (Jeffrey Alexander, Carin Wagner and friends) celebrated their favourite season was to make special year-end recordings as gifts for their friends. Their very first release was a cassette-only production in late 1997. They had a release show in Baltimore with Poem Rocket and Bardo Pond and later mailed the tapes (less than 30 copies total) to friends and family. The following year, Hub City records wanted to release it on CD, so we added extra tracks and it became their first CD proper 'The River Nektar'. In late 2000, they decided to make another year-end record, on CD-R. This one was specifically Winter-related and was the first of what would become annual Yuletide releases. Not so much 'holiday' oriented as they are seasonal - a celebration of the turning of the year, darkness, cold, snow, death and re-birth. Camera Obscura fell in love with these recordings, and is now releasing them officially with a boatload of bonus material. Jeffrey continues the story: 'The Iditarod disbanded in April 2003. It seems appropriate that this double Yuletide collection will be the Iditarod's final, posthumous release, as these are recordings that we love about a time of year that we love. It's great that we're now able to share these with more people. Disc I. 'Winter Suite' was recorded in February 2003 at AS220 in Providence by Jed Marshall - it was one of our few 'studio' sessions and featured the same quartet line-up as our 2003 UK tour with Sharron Kraus: Miriam, Will, Carin and myself. The track's centrepiece, Winter, a long-time Iditarod live staple, was originally issued on the first Yuletide CDR, but this is a previously unreleased version. The rest of the Suite has never been issued in any form. The following eight tracks were originally self-released on CDR as 'Yuletide' (Winter 2001-2002, edition of 75). One song from the original release 'Winter's Spell' has been omitted, as an updated version of it was included on the 2002-2003 instalment of 'Yuletide' (Elsie and Jack Records). All of the other songs are presented here in their original order, now properly mastered. 'Darkness, Darkness' and 'Night's Candles Are Burnt Out' are two pieces that we wrote for our 2002 tour of New England and Canada's Maritime Provinces with Sharron Kraus. 'Y Cwps' is a live improvisation from our one and only performance in Wales, where we were hosted by Dafydd and Ruth of Oggum Records and Alphane Moon. These three tracks are all previously unreleased. Disc II begins with the live version of 'The Trees Are All Bare' that we performed at the fifth Terrastock festival. Our original version was released on the Elsie and Jack Yuletide CD. 'Scandinavian Instrumental', 'The Rowan' and 'Mountains Of The Moon' (yes, the Grateful Dead song) were all recorded live at our VPRO radio session in Holland during our second European tour. All unreleased previously. The following six tracks were originally self-released on CDR as 'Yuletide' (Winter 2000-2001, edition of 75). Again, there is one omission from the original release 'Winter' as the newer studio version is included here on Disc I. 'In The Bleak Midwinter' is a familiar seasonal hymn that I arranged with some new music. The lyrics come from a poem by Christina Rosetti , updated by Laura Deal Raeder. 'Unspherical' was a track that we recorded during the 'Ghost, the Elf, the Cat and the Angel' sessions but never mixed. This early live version is the only vestige of the song. 'Boat', one of Carin's first songs, remains one of her best. It was recorded during our first Scandinavian tour by Benny (Origami Galaktika) - he joined in with his fujara. 'There Was A Pig Went Out To Dig' is another old children's carol associated with traditional English folk plays (often called mummer's plays) that celebrate the death of the year. It's a funny rhyme, personifying animals with the cycle of planting and harvest. 'Wide Oak-And-Iron' is another recording with Benny from the same session as Boat. This is previously unreleased. The last track is another traditional verse from the British Isles that I set to new music. Although 'Thierna Na Oge' was not originally intended as a Winter recording (it was previously issued on the 'Poor Minstrels of Song, Vol I' compilation CD, 2001), we chose to include it for several reasons. It was one of our favorite Iditarod recordings and the lyrics are suitably fitting - suggesting hope and re-birth in a time of death. It also seemed very appropriate that this piece should be the last song on the final Iditarod release."
6/1/2002	Iditarod, The	The Ghost, the Elf, the Cat, & the Angel	CD	$11.99	Blue Sanct	“Although their live shows seem to be heading in some sort of sprawling prog-rock direction, the second album by this Rhode Island combo retains the rustic folk cloud-draping seasoned listeners expect. The band's main shakers are Jeffrey Alexander and Carin Wagner, who also run the Magic Eye record label. Carin's voice haunts the same corridors as those visited by many Brits of the classic UK acid-folk era, while the band wraps things in sheets of pure acoustic trembling, shot through with quivering veins of electric-psych mist. On a couple of tracks there's some extra weight provided by the similarly-minded German duo, Fit & Limo, but the Iditarod really have enough autonomous meat to go it alone. The pieces here (a couple of which are instrumentals) manage to combine the mournfulness of the English folk tradition with the gentle confoundment of early psychedelic explorers in a fine and original way. Like the work of Kendra Smith's Guild of Temporal Adventurers, this music has some similarities to that of previous travelers (stoned, world-wise and earthy), but it collects itself inside a genteel cloud of incense that is unique. There are some songs (like ‘Cycle Circle’) combining the classicist elements with more contemporary-sounding techniques, but the vast majority of this could easily be a lost Harvest label master from the early '70s. And as such, it's a treat and a bargain to boot.” - Byron Coley
1/29/2003	Iditarod, The	The River Nektar	CD	$13.99	BlueSanct	"The production on the Iditarod's 1998 debut is sparser than it would evolve into by the time of their The Ghost, the Elf, the Cat, and the Angel four years later. Yet the approach is the same: minimal, spooky folk-psych-pop, featuring Carin Wagner's tremulous vocals, mystically-tinged words suggesting a fragile pastoralism, and overall establishing the mood of walking through an enchanted but haunted forest. Though the backing is dominated by acoustic guitar, it's augmented by weird touches such as violin-like drones, eerie slide, disconsolate tambourine rattles, effects that sound like wind and dog barks through a white noise filter, thunderstorm prattles, and chirping birds. It's music for the slow hours and solitary places, for sure, Wagner's voice sometimes faltering as though she's afraid of waking the neighbors. On one of the more disquieting cuts, ‘Boat,’ her quivering lead is doubled by another voice (hers?), faintly in the background, that sounds like a woman on the verge of a low-key nervous breakdown. The 2003 CD reissue adds nine bonus tracks from out-of-print singles and outtakes, similar to those on the proper album but sometimes a little more lo-fi (and occasionally live, if the low-volume crowd noise on some tracks is an accurate indication). Most of the bonus material presents songs not on the album in any form, with the exception of a live version of ‘Boat’ and an ‘original version’ of ‘Garden’; also among the bonus cuts are covers of Donovan's ‘The Lullaby of Spring’ and Brian Eno's ‘The Fat Lady of Limbourg.’" - Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
2/26/2003	Iditarod, The with Sharron Kraus	Yuletide	CD	$15.99	elsieandjack	"This one is a collaboration with our favorite British folksinger Sharron Kraus and it was just too good for a CD-R release, so the fine folks at Elsie & Jack stepped in. What a perfect home for this record as the label is equally split between the UK and USA, just like the artists! Five songs wander in and out of Jeffrey's additional atmospheric creations, totaling 42 minutes of music. Includes an update on 'Winter's Spell' recorded live at WFMU and the studio version of 'The Trees Are All Bare', which was a much-asked about highlight of our Terrastock set. The lovely package was designed and hand-assembled by Elsie & Jack."
12/24/2005	If, bwana	Gruntle	CD	$12.99	Absurd	"guess that most of you are used to al margolis's (aka 'if,bwana) more 'serious' electroacoustic soundscapes and expect 'gruntle' to be another fine addition to this style.. in a sense it is... a unique if,bwana recording, collecting 4 tunes recorded between 95 - 02 which however refer more to the legendary if,bwana tapes sound (if there weren't a kinda remaster to the original tapes, would have been even more lo-fi hissing electroacoustics) where al's creative play w/ loops & enigmatic sounds together w/ the childlike artwork of nixilx.nijilx make it a wonderful trip in a bizarro world..."
8/28/2007	Ignatz	Hello There Little Ghost / Slumber With Great Peace	cassette	$7.99	Dreamtime Taped Sounds	"Sweet cassingle by full time daydreamer BRAM DEVENS. also known as MILES DEVENS. This is the second cassette we put out by the man, and it's a clean hologram of positive beauty. side A is the mans personal vision on BACK PORCH HILLBILLY BLUES. including a cute African outro. side B is the ballad that will easilly guide you towards the borders of the year 2012...This tape is to celebrate the birth of Casper, his firstborn son!! Dubbed on hq chrom tapes with silkscreened covers (in babycolors). art by the daydreamer himself b/w doctor dolphin."
11/15/2008	Ignatz	III	LP	$16.99	Kraak	"With his third full album Bram Devens has once again amazed us with a masterpiece. In his usual brain-melting retro-futuristic blues folk, he summons the devilish spirits of Bukka White, Robert Pete Williams and Sleepy John Estes as seen through the eyes of an adolescent Lou Reed. III turned out to be a true concept album about different ways of dying. Unintelligible stories about drowning, cancer or a car accident are spread throughout the entire record. All these tragedies are built upon screeching, atonal and repetitive melodies. III breathes a much more sentimental atmosphere compared to Devens previous work because of his grousing voice, that is not unlike Skip James. After the closing track Dead By Noon, the tormented soul frees the listener from a heavy personal trip and leaves him dazzled. III projects the atmosphere of Jack London and The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog onto a modern world ruled by technology. Devens brings us the most genuine melancholy contemporary pop music has seen since quite some time. This album leaves the underground scenery that is troubled by trends so often far behind and just shows us the pure essence of what Music has to be: raw emotions put to sound."
	Il Leone	Petroushka	Hardcover book	$20.99		"The actual identity of the author is a mystery - even the publisher says he does not know exactly who ‘Il Leone (The Lion)’ really is, although he is described as a kind of troubadour poet living more or less on nothing in a variety of countries, mainly in Europe; the book certainly shows the influence of early 20th Century artistic schemes (especially Russian Futurism) and the nod to Stravinsky in the use of the puppet show character Petroushka and the explosive nature of some of the writing is probably no accident. But there is something more potent and intense and scathing (and ultimately more original) in the satire of some of the set pieces; stories within stories within stories, deaths without reasons, strange reports of war, a tale told by trees, sections of lyrical mourning, meetings with historic figures all intertwined with agility. Ultimately nothing is more psychedelic than a season in hell when led there by a wayfaring stranger with a taste for the obscure."
7/12/2004	Ilitch	Hors Temps / Out of Time	CD	$17.99	Fractal	"Thierry Muller - Ilitch's head- is the multi-intrumentalist dark experimental french composer who started his musical carreer with the band Arcane as an underground electronics improvisations outfit around the years 1974. Albums Periodkmintrouble 1978 & 10 suicides 1980 were Ilitch's first two works followed by the Ruth pop synth project Polaroid roman photo in 1985. All three are now reissued on CD with many unreleased bonus material by Fractal Records. Well received by many critics today, Ilitch took a solid place in the french underground scene from that area and was a serious source of influence on several groups/artists such as The Legendary Pink Dots for instance. After 24 years, the third and brand new Ilitch album is now released, titled ironically Hors Temps / Out of time and was composed during the last five years. More than a gap, it s a generation of sounds in between... and Thierry Muller is at the rendez-vous : a full album in 9 electropopsonics excursions through the time with a pleiade of colored sounds (vocals, guitar, vocals, drums, percussions, farfisa, rhythmic programms, treated piano etc...). From the mellow pop to the angry waves, Hors Temps / Out of time is a blink at the early hours and a poetic reflection and vision on life. With the participation of the great musician poet Philippe Doray! Subtle pop power for adult entertainment. Rendez-vous Hors Temps."
7/16/2006	Ill Wind Ensemble	Nobody Goes that Way	CDR	$9.99	Spirit of Orr	"Kevin Moreau, Charlie Schneeweis and John Levin started the Ill Wind Ensemble in 1993. The original band had a shifting line up that included many of the wayward musicians that hung out at McNeil's here in Brattleboro VT. By 1994 they had settled down to a quartet, with percussionist Eric Boyer, that would perform together for another seven years. This recording from 1995 documents that quartet as they began to hone their free improvisations into a collective musical language. Using instruments from western, world, and home-made traditions, as well as toys and other found objects, and guided by a shared passion for droning modes, the unpredictable tunings of folk winds and reeds, and careful listening, the group, as Kevin liked to put it, "peeled the paint off the walls" of his Wilder Building studio with sounds like the ones captured on this CD. Originally produced in home-duplicated cassette format and sold only at concerts in a proto-internet and pre-downloadable world, this Spirit of Orr release captures a lost moment in time. Limited to 100 hand assembled copies."
10/6/2007	IMCA	IMCA	CD	$12.99	Absurd	"I have to admit that I have a love-hate relation with this album. I love the way this album was made. It represents a somewhat bygone musical age, a time with cassettes and without e-mail, when things worked perhaps slower, but perhaps also more intensely. The full story of how the IMCA project (International Musique Concrete Ensemble) came together is told in detail in the CD booklet. In short, in 1990 Frans de Waard started a mail collaboration with John Hudak and Jos Smolders for a cassette on Midas Music, and later a second one with Guido Huebner (of Das Synthetisches Mischgewebe), Ios Smolders and Isabelle Chemin, which was the LP released by Korm Plastics. The basic soundmaterial (created by De Waard) was mailed to the first recipient who would rework the material and mail it to the next recipient etcetera. Thus a network chain was born. The results were released on the original IMCA album, which came on glorious white vinyl and contained an explanatory booklet. The vinyledition consisted of 98 copies; 77 of these were for the public, 21 for the makers, resulting in the fact that many people knew about it, but only a few actually heard the music. I remember I was supposed to help gluing the covers, but I can't remember if I did in the end. I was given a free copy, so perhaps I did. I love the way this re-release is presented; an old tattered cover of the LP was used for this CD, which gives it a nice archival touch. The booklet is well-designed (by Meeuw), contains some of the original notes and explains the recording process in detail. But now to the music: IMCA is not easy listening, it is in fact a very demanding, electro-acoustic record with extreme dynamics. These dynamics were a bit lost on the original pressing on vinyl, but due to Jos Smolder's remastering these are back in place, which means you'll get to hear the IMCA ensemble as it was meant to be heard. The opening track of the CD still gives me a headache: high pitched feedback shrieks close to the level of irritation. It's hard to listen to this without turning the volume down. Luckily the electro-acoustic/musique concret of IMCA becomes more listenable after the challenging intro. The often dry sounds (dry as in untreated") are combined with long silences, with, at times, sudden blasts of concrete noise. Most of the used sounds seem to have their origin in noise (musique concret) rather than a musical source. Despite the many hands at the wheel of this album, the results are strangely coherent, which is a complement to those involved. In total 10 tracks are indexed, even though it's hard to tell where one ends and the other one begins. IMCA is probably best enjoyed in one long listening session in the right frame of mind. The final 2 tracks, which make up for the final 30 minutes of this CD, feature side A and B from the Midas cassette version with contributions from John Hudak. Here the sound is more traditional industrial if you like, with rhythms and a bit of a Nurse With Wound touch. Not bad at all. This is an important archive release of an album made by adventurous musicians who actually live up to their name. Like back in 1991, I'm not sure if it's musically a classic, but I am very happy to have this in my collection." - Freek Kinkelaar, Vital Weekly
11/27/2007	Impromptulons, The	Beat It / Beat Off	3" CDR	$7.99	Black Petal	"6 piece improv slop from brisbane featuring mr joel stern and members of such classic brisbane groups as the perfect lovers, no guru and faber castell. apparently born from the mantra of 'everybody solos, nobody solos'; this sounds more like 'everybody is on the one, nobody is on the one'. 3" cdr with handmade covers."
1/20/2002	Improved Sound Limited	s/t	CD	$17.99	Long Hair	"First time released on CD. This German psychedelic Pop/Rock band released in 1971 their first LP, a double album on Liberty/U.A. 17 emotional tracks, lyrical sound with superb flute and great harmony vocals with more than 70 mins in the direction of the Beatles White Album, with more psychedelic underground influences. Contains a 17 min song 'A Soldiers Songbook' from the Beatnik movie Wer im Glashaus liebt oder der Graben by Micheal Verhoeven - a real music trip!"
4/24/2006	In/Flux	Cryptic Cloak	CDR	$7.99	Jyrk	"The first time I met these dudes, we were playing a show in Vancouver, B.C. and this girl that had been doing yoga on the floor rolled up to me and handed me a CDR with an old pinup playing card sewn to the cover... she said "she's for you... from back when boobs were real...." and then she just rolled off... Shit was totally mysterious.... and the next day, Gabe pulls out his copy of the CDR with this naked dude on it and we put it on... Both of us were totally stunned.. Basically.. it was this CDR by In/Flux called "Hoc-Age." It's total outsider noise if there ever was such a thing.. totally lo-fi and disjointed yelps, guitar skree, lots of unidentifiable things happening... Similar murk to those like The Skaters and Dead C, but the actual identifiable sounds are way different.. maybe something like if the dead C self-titled double disc from a few years back was way more lo-fi and they were super young genderfuckers from canada with a hell of a lot of inspiration and piles of totally shitty gear. "Cryptic Cloak" is a reissue of "Hoc-Age" with additional tracks from the "Metalguests" CDR... 100 copies."
7/30/2006	Inaba, Shuji	Yoenzange	CD	$12.99	Last Visible Dog	"Perhaps this wispy history, built as much upon the shadow ground of myth, rumor and superstition as upon sun-kissed fact, accounts for the spooked air that animates Inaba's every breath. The spirit of personal myth permeates too his lyrics, which at their most opaque seem to float through the mists of a timeless rural antiquity. Heard here in his natural element of a live concert (his previous two albums, "Innen Kaho" on Planktone and "Land of Prayer" on PSF were both studio recordings) we can hear true the spirit winds whistling through ancient cryptomeria groves, stirring the bark shingles on shrine roofs." --from the liner notes by Alan Cummings
	Inaba, Shuji	Yoenzange	CDR	$5.99	Last Visible Dog	"Inaba has a way of playing a folk song that sounds traditional and then building it into a whirling cataclysm that sounds traditional only in the way that hurricanes, monsoons, and blizzards are traditional. And somehow he does this with the same acoustic guitar and voice that he began the song with. Nowhere has this been more evident than on this naked solo performance. Includes lyrics in Japanese with English translation by Alan Cummings."
9/30/2008	Inca Ore / Grouper	split	LP	$16.99	IOG	"Split record between Oakland's Inca Ore (Eva Saelens of Alarmist, Jackie-O Motherfucker, prior releases include BRUTE NATURE VS WILD MAGIC, The Birds in the Bushes, Birthday of Bless You) and Portland's Grouper (Liz Harris of Grouper, Krueger, Badgerlore, prior releases include Way Their Crept, Wide, Cover the Windows and the Walls and Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill). This split was a collaboration put together during the late winter of 2007 while both were living in Portland. Eva's material was made in Morelia, Mexico during and inspired by a journey through that part of the world earlier that same winter. Her side is a return to Eva performing solo, lonely and haunting. The sounds of feeling tried, and of exploring some dark realm of the spirit are apparent, and quite beautiful to listen to. A chorus of distorted cave-bound vocals, melodies that soar upwards and float back down into horror film loops. Grouper's side finds a return to the Wurlitzer keyboard, fragmented and layered. Songs separate and return to meet in uprooted refrains, at once disarming and soothing. Similar sense of some grey kind of journey rooted in both physical and ethereal worlds. Self-released by Eva and Liz."
8/31/2008	Inca Ore / Secret Abuse	split	7"	$5.99	Not Not Fun	"Western wayfarer Inca Ore speak-sings a strange rain vision from the knit lairs of her Portland winter '07 hibernation. On the B, noise nomad Jeff Witscher stares into the mirror/pedals and sees the dark night with fucked clarity. Negative meditation at its finest."
2/11/2006	Incomparables Club	The Palace at 4 a.m	CDR	$8.99	Black Velvet Fuckere	"Recorded in Louisville, Kentucky over 10 years ago, Incomparables Club "The Palace at 4 a.m." suffered numerous manufacturing and financial delays and was never released. Until now. This is middle of the night loner lobal swabere at its most isolated and sparse, tempered with strong doses of melancholia yet delivered in virile living color. Conjured up is serious head music that continues to reveal itself via repeated listenings. "The Palace at 4 a.m." is a jig saw puzzle and road map. It is stocked full of allusions covering all corners of the conceptual world (film, literature and art) - yet it never succumbs to a gratuitious pose. Despite its heavy "avant-electronic/music-concrete" vein, this record refuses to take itself too seriously and steers clear of the yahoo-serious trappings of the turtleneck-girdled "avant" world. Tropes akin to the Shadow Ring and the LAFMS' finest moments appear a la oddball what-the-fuck? dandruff scratcher post urination dribble confusion. Laced inside the flow and stride are short spoken excerts from a dream diary kept for over 20 years by the album mastermind, Norman Minogue. Via theremin, shortwave radio, turntable and cello and other instruments Minogue mindmelds with in a makeshift living room studio often paired with Steve Good on bass clarinet and b-flat clarinet. The collective intuition and unconscious underbelly swabbing between the two is pure and is ancient and is unmatched. Both Good and Minogue played together in EOR, the little known Louisville based group of the early 90's that somehow treaded ground between the sound worlds of Bone Cure and the Dead C and are surely the only firebrand improv group to release vinyl on Will Oldham's record label. Both also have played on numerous Eugene Chadbourne recordings including the "I Talked to Death in Stereo" LEO album. This CD-R release is packaged with no less love than a quality CD release - via full color gloss - gnarly mug shots, valium with halos and cinematic tape art collage juxtapose the sound substance with the art artifact. Much like the work of Raymond Roussel, from whom the group name is lifted, INCOMPARABLES CLUB have nothing to say and they say it poorly. Despite this seemingly pejorative context, this album creates and exists in an intoxicating world unto itself smearing soundcolor beyond the 3rd dimension - justifing the handle: Incomparables Club."
2/2/2002	Incredible String Band	Chelsea Sessions '67	CD	$13.99	Pig's Whisker	"Terrific and exciting group of studio demos, recorded after the first ISB LP, after Clive's departure from the group, and upon Robin's return from Morocco. And there you have it, the Chelsea Sessions; previously unissued gems plus early versions of what would soon become classics in the loopy legacy of the ISB on the 5000 Spirits & Wee Tam LP's some with different lyrics. These have clearly been taken from the master tapes and digitally mastered, as the sound is of superb quality! Essential album for the ISB collection, which is not something we would say recklessly."
9/3/2003	Incredible String Band, The	The Incredible String Band	LP	$17.99	Sundazed	"If any musical combo ever meshed perfectly with the times it was the Incredible String Band. And here's the proof: their 1966 debut, The Incredible String Band; 1967's The 5000 Spirits Or Layers Of The Onion; and The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter from 1968 - all on deep-grooved, 180-gram vinyl. The wildly eclectic Scottish folk outfit - with the airy vocals and fretboard prowess of Robin Williamson and Mike Heron as its two constants - began life resurrecting wondrous and ancient Celtic ballads, then was transformed by the perfumed winds of 1967's psychedelic revolution to add sitar, oud, gimbri and all manner of exotic axes to its arsenal. The result is a gently mesmerizing psychedelia and anti-folk stance - consummate counterpoint to current psych heroes like Mogwai and Beachwood Sparks - that makes perfectly clear why the Incredible String Band remains just that: Incredible."
4/20/2008	Indian Sonic Omnibus	Indian Sonic Omnibus	CDR	$7.99	Majmua Music	"Recorded over three trips to India (2002, 2003 & 2004/2005) using inexpensive recording media (minidisk and cassette recorders). Granted, it is not a journey for the audiophile purist out there, but you'll want to hop aboard this omnibus to hear examples of street and temple music, as well as field recordings and incidential sounds and more from many corners of this vast country! From the brass marching bands of Mysore's famed Dasara parade to recordings from the Joydev Mela that you won't find on a "proper" world music sampler, we have strived to present a work that touches on our sonic experiences - yes the experiences of outsiders but a fascinating experience nevertheless. Our primary interest in this release is to present that which might usually get pushed into the margins, the joy of sound as it appears in a part of the world, as it really manifests - not prettied up for the sake of presentability. Serene bhajans and festival party bands exist in the same place, isn't it time they share the same disc? From a boat ride down the Ganges with dueling rituals vying for your attention to impassioned nadaswaram/saxophone/percussion music from a Jain holy site to a mandolin/tabla duo that conjure up images of surf guitar, we bring you some amazing sounds that you won't even have to catch a train (although to relive that there's track 13) to experience in the course of an hour!" Limited edition of 75 copies.
4/29/2008	Indoorpark	The Neutral Mile	CDR	$9.99	Deep Water	"Indoorpark is the Detroit-based duo of Nick Schillace and Jon Moshier, and we're thrilled to have their debut release on Deep Water. Schillace is better known among wise ears as one of the finest post-Fahey acoustic guitarists on the scene today (with several CDs and lots of touring to prove it), and while his deft stringwork is well on display here, this is anything but a folk album. Instead, The Neutral Mile serves up seven tracks (42 minutes) of rich vintage-future soundscapery, nimble hollowbody fingerpicking combining with crisp, driving drumming and occasional samples/electronics in an extremely cinematic fashion. You could strain your brain trying to come up with some new hyphenated hybrid description (neo-post-art-folk-rock… ack) or you could just settle back and let the music take your mind on a tomorrowland trip. We recommend the latter. CD-R in offset printed digipack."
11/2/2008	Infinite Body	A Series of False Awakenings	one sided LP	$11.99	Arbor	"Kyle Parker is Infinite Body. Like most of Southern California's harsh noise youth crew (Impregnable, Privy Seals, Pedestrian Deposit), IB is the polar opposite of Kyle's former project, Gator Surprise. There is something about the shift from creating unrelenting, harsh noise to ambient dreamlike drones that works perfectly; flowing with dedication and intensity from similar veins. Infinite Body's debut cd "White Hymn" was a masterpiece of blurred lights, colorful, but heavy synthesizer and vocoder pieces. "A Series of False Awakenings", his follow up to that CD from the winter, shows a seasonal change, with a heavy presence on field recordings: children in parks, chimes, and the spring ambience of light winds and birds' songs. An elevated sense of reality: entirely surreal. Kyle's thoughtful and sincere work is certainly some of the most well executed around and the upcoming Infinite Body/Emaciator split LP on Monorail Trespassing will only further solidify this. In an edition of 300 LPs with proprinted foldover sleeves featuring art by Kyle."
12/4/2003	Infinity	Collected Works 1969-1970	LP	$24.99	Acme	"Fascinating psychedelic progressive sounds from the band that emerged from the ashes of legendary UK underground band The Flies; thirteen tracks, all recorded for the album that the band was never fated to release recordings from Tangerine and Essex Studios, featuring eventual T2 leader Peter Dunton; most compelling tracks include a version of the Beatles’ ‘Taxman’, and their would-be single, ‘Pattern People’ from a home demo; limited edition LP has band history, and typical stylish Acme packaging."
10/9/2003	Ink Puddle Compound	Tantrum Seas and Dust Lanes	CD	$14.99	Camera Obscura	"Tantrum Seas and Dust Lanes is an assured debut from Brandon Siscoe - an artist who is comfortable laying down a wide range of textures, from minimalist electronics in the mould of early Rough Trade releases to edgy acoustic folk that dovetails nicely with a lot of the current generation of NYC 'apartment folk' which is being heavily cited by various tastemakers. Siscoe's ghostlike vocals seem to have travelled from some far away somnolent cave and make a nice bedfellow for a subtle web of melancholy electronics, guitars, piano and other found or orphaned instruments. He plays all of the instruments on his recordings; layering them to create interesting synergies and interplays, thus avoid the one-dimensionality associated with many one-person projects. Releases by Siscoe under the Ink Puddle Compound banner display the artist's desire to find a middle ground between structured songwriting and more abstract experimental compositions. The artist cites influences from the Swans, Legendary Pink Dots, and Incredible String Band, to Brian Eno, Silver Apples, and Sonic Boom. In the eleven diverse tracks here, the listener will probably also detect parallels to early UK post-rock outfits such as A.R. Kane, Bark Psychosis and Disco Inferno. Ultimately though, Siscoe continues to bring to the table songs and sounds of seemingly alien origin."
10/25/2008	Inseminoid	Pagan Anorexia	cassette	$5.99	905 Tapes	"Culver / Mutant Ape creep collab of the tone dead basement variety. zombie tones that are insomniac from birth just searching for a warm grave. tangled up in the webs is fantasy-esque darkness that oozes an "under the bed / in the closet" macabre feeling. will leave you black in the bloodstream."
	Institut Fuer Feinmotorik	Negemergenz	LP	$11.99	Fusetron	"A project which is interested in the complex relationship between the perception of micro- phenomenons in acoustic and visual spheres and the precisioned stumbling through micro-social behaviour in daily situations".
2/21/2007	Iovae	Civilization	CD	$7.99	SNSE	"...Here layers of brutal droning, ferocious fuzz and other various eardrum shredding devices are seamlessly soldered together to produce a work that delivers an almost hallucinatory impact. Sounds that were once identifiable as just noise slowly take on a form of their own. As Civilization really begins to slide, these begin to mutate into a more detailed (and spikier) soundtrack. At its best, Civilization is the sound of everything falling apart." - The Wire, December 2005. "Outside of Iovae, Ron is a member of the long-running Art Damage radio program and also pulls duty in the twerked "rock" band Death Beam. Iovae has shared collaborative releases with Mammal and Burning Star Core. He has had multiple CDR releases including some on C. Spencer Yeh's Drone Disco imprint, as well as on John Olson's (Wolf Eyes, Dead Machines,) American Tapes label. One of the most impressive of these prior releases, Quartervois, was reissued in proper CD format by the German experimental music label Zarek in 2004. Civilization is Iovae's second pro-pressed CD release and SNSE is honored to present it to you." Edition of 420 copies, pro-printed on textured cardstock, in clear jewel case.
3/21/2007	Iovae	Radio Exorcisms	3" CDR	$7.99	Chondritic Sound	"Tactile oscillator churn and phased/juddering radio hi-jack from Ron Orovitz of Cincinnati who has shared splits with heads like Mammal and Burning Star Core. This is one sick tunnel of churn, with minimal percussive thud and patches of mainlined tongue extended to infinity." Numbered edition of 153.
7/16/2006	Iovae / Three Legged Race	Heliofugue / Calling Order	7"	$5.99	Epicene	"Two of my favorite modern noise makers from the states have to be HAIR POLICE and IOVAE. This is very close to being a split from both. IOVAE is Ron Orovitz also known as the D.J. on ART DAMAGE RADIO, a memeber of the no-wave nosie group DEATH BEAM, a noise weirdos WILD GUNMAN. For IOVAE's track we get slow churning crackle, pop and hiss from the "Grinder" (a series of ancient military oscillators) that builds into what sounds like the church bell tones of a satanic mass echoing through the devils canyon. 3 LEGGED RACE is Robert from HAIR POLICE and EYES AND ARMS OF SMOKE. For the Race side we get one ominous heavenly droning swelling tone which is given the extreme reverb treatment until it sounds like a white washed blissed out radiant hum. The artwork was designed by Robert and is a must see. One sheet of lines with a transparency of lines. but when one is placed over the othere, you start to see a hidden image. Also just moving the transparency around on top of the other page makes alot of tripped out intersecting lines. like i said one you have to see, def one of the best looking, most intresting covers in EPICENE history. Limited edition of 300 copies, split release with Mark of Black Tent's Gentian label."
9/30/2005	Irene Moon	Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon presents: Excerpts From Field Station	10"	$12.99	Begonia Society	"10 inches of fun--entomology lectures set to organ music. Repressed in 2004."
9/30/2005	Irene Moon & Friends	For the Neonate	10"	$12.99	Begonia Society	"New 10 inch record from the begonia society. Irene Moon and pals. Silk-screened glitter-gold covers with music from Irene Moon, Ergo Phizmiz, Auk Theatre, and Sick Hour all participate in the vinyl event. Artwork and larval centifold from the drawings of Brenden Lawson. Horror for the breakfast table. One odd collage."
9/30/2005	Iron Kite, The	No Eyebrows	CD	$12.99	Twilight Flight Sound	"Brand new full-length album - recorded live at 'Beerland', Austin, Texas, 19/9/04 - from this free/trance/psych group featuring Shawn McMillen ex-Ash Castles On The Ghost Coast and current Friday Group member (alongside Tom Carter of Charalambides). This one starts out with a fried forest of percussive hump and throat ritual that sparks the same kind of brain-pyre as the more blackly folkloric Sun City Girls recordings. As the tracks progresses the gongs start to sound more like human skulls and the combination of punk guitar flail, moog and percussion drags the whole deal all the way through to an alternative time-line where The Familiar Ugly scored an extended, cassette-only cover of the dying seconds of No New York. Cover features a demonic cartoon hermaphrodite with six sweating tits, mouths for hands and a hairy cartoon schlong. Looks like they got their audience all figured out." - Volcanic Tongue
9/17/2006	Irons, Asa & Swann Miller	s/t	LP	$17.99	Spirit of Orr	"Recorded in 2003 as he was travelling around the country, this very simple, intimate, and home spun record continues to stun all who have heard it as a self released CDR. Asa's vocals are complemented so perfectly by his dear friend Swann that the songs resonate with the mutual knowing only old close friends can share. If you are at all familiar with his efforts in FEATHERS, or watched him hunch over a guitar with WTICH, or have been perplexed and amazed at his saw blade solo work, this document will be an irreplaceable eye-opener to how well grounded and concurrently high reaching Asaís music can be. Limited to 600 copies on opaque grey vinyl, packaged in black jackets with art by Hillary Irons glues to the front. This is one of 'those' records, a classic." Recommended!
10/25/2008	Is	Rogue Wave	cassette	$5.99	905 Tapes	"illinoizer brian tholl continues his pain-focussed dirt works on rogue wave, a stark c40 with greyscale electronics and massive skull staplers. his sounds through is are like towers that are built up and sent crumbling to the ground, ending with rats scattering through the ruins. utterly bitter."
11/21/2008	Isengrind / Twinsistermoon / Natural Snow Buildings	The Snowbringer Cult	double CD	$19.99	Students of Decay	"Enter the Snowbringer Cult. Lo, behold the great arrival. Over the course of several private press releases, all of which will see much needed CD reissues later this year, and the gone-in-the-blink-of-an-eye "Laurie Bird" CDR that we released in early February '08, the music and artwork of Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte has become the stuff of legend. Such is the case despite the fact that the amount of people who have actually been fortunate enough to acquire physical copies of these wondrous releases numbers in the mere low hundreds. "The Snowbringer Cult" then, in all of its epic glory, is what you might call an entirely necessary and long overdue coming out release by France's mighty Natural Snow Buildings. The album is composed of two jam-packed discs of brand new material recorded in the final months of 2007, the first being a split between the duo's solo projects: Isengrind (Gularte) and Twinsistermoon (Ameziane). Here, the pair's tendency to occupy the full 80 minute capacity of the CD medium proves ideal, as both solo projects effectively have a full 40 minutes in which to sketch their respective sonic visions. Disc one begins with the exotic ethnodrones of Isengrind, with Gularte transporting us to some blasted bazaar where Eastern strings, haunted vocals and a marvelous universe of shaken and beaten percussion emanates from every dark corner of the windswept streets. "To Ride With Holle" could be a merging of the resonant clatter of "Empty Bell"-era Pelt with the enchanted peaks of the Taj Mahal Travellers' bleary eyed beachside reveries. Elsewhere, Gularte presents us with tribal landscapes that wouldn't be out of place on the most captivating of Sublime Frequencies releases, as is the case on "Wooden False Face." Ever the chameleon, throughout her half of the split Gularte takes us to deep, dark places, such as the barren netherworld of "SunDusk Wand," as well as the bright, blue summits found in her magnificent closing piece "Anima Sola." Emerging from the ashes of Isengrind's lush soundworlds are Mehdi Ameziane's own solo flights as Twinsistermoon, which begin with the keening, sprawling "Amantsokan," a truly mesmerizing dirge. It is with "The Spears of the Wolf" however, that the course of this split album is wonderfully altered. Here, Ameziane channels the most affecting qualities of 70's British folk music with wondrous, transportive results. Ameziane's take on the folk song is reminiscent of the pastoral diddies of Vashti Bunyan or perhaps some long lost Linda Perhacs or Anne Briggs recording, all plaintive nylon strings and warm, whispered voices. It is thus that the Twinsistermoon half of the split oscillates effortlessly between two seemingly disparate styles: that of the nostalgic, crestfallen folk song ("Spells," Water Barrier," "Kingdom of the Sea") and that of the slow burning drone epic ("Order of the Dreamt," "Bones Memories," "Understars") - no small feat indeed. For the album's colossal third installment, Ameziane and Gularte join forces under the Natural Snow Buildings moniker for the entirety of disc two. It is here that all of the diversity and compositional prowess evidenced by the pair's solo recordings coheres into the remarkably refined and singular NSB sound. "Resurrect Dead on Planet Six" kicks things off, a horde of screaming, lost specters howling across one thousand endless starry nights. On "Ongon's Rattle," a doomed mass gathers for a ritual processional, with Ameziane and Gularte's moss-laden forest chants floating atop a wistful, rhythmic undertow that is evocative of the best qualities of early Godspeed You! Black Emperor and the rest of the Constellation Records roster. After the sunlit drift of "Inuk's Song," Ameziane and Gularte unleash in the title track what is undoubtedly one of their most compelling compositions to date. A deluge of frenzied woodwind tones gives rise to a blasted sea shanty lament driven forward by collapsing synth lines, booming percussion and increasingly urgent, searing blasts of pure bliss drone guitar. The enigmatic forest dwellers raise their voices again on the shambling, reverent "Gone," and, later, "Salt Signs" continues the beautiful trajectory established by the title track with its impossibly towering summits of synth and string drones that are gradually tempered by kraut-inflected percussion and drifting, rhythmic guitar work. Later still, "The Desert Has Eyes" finds a tribal raga positively eviscerated by blistering sheets of pure whiteout feedback and cascading sine waves. The album ostensibly closes with an ocean of elegiac organ tones woven into a tight coda. However, an emphatic exclamation point to the monster that is "The Snowbringer Cult" occurs with the album's hidden track, wherein an utterly levitating torrent of pounding percussion, hummed vocals and post-Flying Saucer Attack fuzzbox guitar attack scream out into the void. If this seems like a lot to take in - it surely is, but such is the nature of the Natural Snow Buildings cosmos. Enter the Snowbringer Cult. Lo, behold the great arrival. "The Snowbringer Cult" is packaged in a gorgeous 4 panel sleeve printed by the renowned Stumptown Printers featuring gorgeous artwork by Solange."
	Ishizuka, Toshiaki	In The Night	CD	$16.99	PSF	"Second solo album (the first was self-released a few years back) from the dynamic Vajra drummer. The more diligent PSF linernote cataloguers amongst will doubtless also have noticed Ishizuka's long involvement with folk-poet Kazuki Tomokawa's group, an involvement that dates back to the seventies. Back then Ishizuka was best known in Japan as part of the legendary ur-punk group Zuno Keisatsu. He is also the leader of the elegant cinematic (funnily enough) Cinorama, a frequent collaborator with Kan Mikami, and all-round irrepressible drum-slinger for hire. In the West, Ishizuka is probably best known for the martial powerhouse thunderstorms he calls down with PSF supergroup Vajra, but, as this album shows, there's a lot more to him than plain old sweat and muscles. Complexly layered gong tones, bottomless toms, and a multi-varied rhythmic sense that is all his own. The whole thing is shot through with a most appealing sense of fiercely still concentration. This is one of the deepest and, dare we say it, most spiritually resonant percussion records you're going to hear this year." - Alan Cummings.
11/4/2006	Isis and Werewolves	untitled	7"	$25.99	AA Records	One-sided square lathe cut 7" from Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes) AA label.
4/25/2008	Isis Aquarian	Echoes of A Crone, Series 1	CDR	$19.99		"These teachings come from our Spiritual Communal days with Father/YaHoWha and the Source Brotherhood Family. It is a meditative reading with music to activate memory. What we were given 33 years ago has now been substantiated by other teachings, science validating what we had on faith and my 5 month odyssey throughout the churches, monasteries, museums and sacred places of Europe. Teachings are everywhere in symbols, sacred codes and some not-so-hidden ! There is another paradigm shift happening and we are finding that the teachings from all paths are now being revealed for the advancement of mankind. We are each a thread, which woven together will complete the tapestry, thus making us all one." Edition of 50 copies.
6/17/2004	Islaja	Meritie	CD	$18.99	Fonal Records	"Islaja might well be a forgotten islet somewehere or a name of courageous sword swinging heroine in a forgotten fable. For one, Islaja is a certain young woman that has sang and played an album full of heart-rending intimate music. Half a year of quietly working in her homestudio brought about a cluster of transcendental tunes that are now being released as an album called Meritie. One song Islaja whispered in a fewer and another with an oriental monkey. At times it is impossible to tell where the sounds are coming from. The variety of instruments is vast, but all have their space and strong belief in the power of individual sounds can be heard. Islaja has exceptional sense of harmony that alone can make the album a magical listening experience. The voice of Islaja sounds bravely over the screaming crazed sea-gulls. It is stunningly honest. This is a great victory in these times of sadness." Sami from Fonal said "Its a bit like Kemialliset Ystävät and Fursaxa but with a more traditional Finnish feel to it. Its a girl from Finland who's done all the stuff alone. Its one of the records in the Fonal catalogue I nowadays listen to most." Highly recommended!
4/10/2005	Islaja	Palaa Aurinkoon	CD	$18.99	Fonal	"Islaja masters the elements of our universe one by one or maybe the sea and the sun are embracing Islaja, it must go both ways but there, where all this happens, the listener is received with clattering sounds of paradise and drowned by surprise in a swell that stretches all the way to the dark rock bottom. What's down there? Fight the rotten faith so it'll wither until it hardly exists, believe it! Islaja shows the way of rhythm, no it isn't a straight one, the way of chant, it can't be foreseen. Textures evolve into new ones. Scabby rhythms spin socks on feet, skin burns into ashes in the attacking heat. Senile wine glasses wail of happiness. Fallen off beard hair are woven into a scarf that lets the wind blow fast right through it. If only life would be like this more than just an hour at a time! After everything the sun blesses the way with Islaja's words, it spits out of its system the wet and transformed listener, who longs for the light again. Islaja's second album was born in two different places that have been sewed up one to another with the binds of words and a rich sound world. Here and there, Islaja's friends have lent their voices for this world. Loose guitar paths, long strokes of wind instruments, glasses and toys that clink, rattle and tinkle, rhythms, keyboards and Islaja's wonderful, many-faceted voice are cooing in a miraculous net. The album is a spontaneous texture of muscle, cartilage and liquid, everything organized in such a surprising way that one can't believe right away that it's a human being, but soon enough it becomes clear that it's a most ingenious creature. It evolves by itself. It tells us how everything metamorphoses, it relies on itself and infuses belief into the listener that one can change the world. The secret place where the creature invites the listener is revealed to be our real world, it lives here with us." - Lau Naukkarinen. Beautiful album – highly recommended!
4/16/2007	Islaja	Ulual Yyy	CD	$18.99	Fonal	"Islaja's third album is a journey deeper into the world that for us is a dream and a fairytale, but to her a reality. Islaja as a concept has turned into a star that is expected to shine with brilliance. But she is something else. The songs tell us about the decay of our age, its demise and immorality, its plunge into heartless consumer culture. Islaja herself does not burn in that same fire. Her fire is an inner fire. Behind her eyes and in her heart you can see and hear her true charisma. True dedication and utter disrespect for the artificial authority made by men. Yet she is not the self-destructive Nico or the eccentric Björk. But a good woman. A tough one. Her eyes can burn a hole in you. Her songs are poems and stabbing knives. - Sami Sänpäkkilä." "Islaja is Merja Kokkonen, a young visual artist and musician living and working in Helsinki, Finland. Islaja records her music at home using a rainbow of instruments to accompany her personal vocal delivery sung in Finnish. She has performed with Avarus, Kemialliset Ystävät and is also a member of Hertta Lussu Ässä, a free-folk super trio with Lau Nau and Kuupuu."
4/16/2007	Islaja	Ulual Yyy	LP	$21.99	Fonal	"Islaja's third album is a journey deeper into the world that for us is a dream and a fairytale, but to her a reality. Islaja as a concept has turned into a star that is expected to shine with brilliance. But she is something else. The songs tell us about the decay of our age, its demise and immorality, its plunge into heartless consumer culture. Islaja herself does not burn in that same fire. Her fire is an inner fire. Behind her eyes and in her heart you can see and hear her true charisma. True dedication and utter disrespect for the artificial authority made by men. Yet she is not the self-destructive Nico or the eccentric Björk. But a good woman. A tough one. Her eyes can burn a hole in you. Her songs are poems and stabbing knives. - Sami Sänpäkkilä." "Islaja is Merja Kokkonen, a young visual artist and musician living and working in Helsinki, Finland. Islaja records her music at home using a rainbow of instruments to accompany her personal vocal delivery sung in Finnish. She has performed with Avarus, Kemialliset Ystävät and is also a member of Hertta Lussu Ässä, a free-folk super trio with Lau Nau and Kuupuu."
3/26/2006	Ism	Robert Horton 1979-1991	CDR	$10.99	23 Productions	"We met Robert Horton in the bay area last Winter. He came up after the show and said the show reminded him of some old jams of his from 1979, etc. A couple months later this disc shows up in the mail featuring the crawling mutant improv of Ism along with several other projects involving Horton, spanning all throughout the 1980's. Featuring a revolving cast of bay area upstarts and a pile of freshly invented instruments This anthology is a twisting scrapbook of lost California baked noise antics and inverted musical dimensions."
	IST	Anagrams To Avoid	LP	$11.99	Siwa	"This was the debut release by the string trio of Simon Fell, Mark Wastell and Rhodri Davies. The small edition on vinyl only snuck out in 1997 and was criminally ignored (due admittedly in part to Siwa's reluctant approach to promotional activities). One reviewer at the time said it wouldn1t have been out of place in the Incus catalogue and the observation seems to have been validated somewhat by the current double CD on that label that adds another six strings to the line up courtesy of Derek Bailey. Unusual instrumentation of bass, cello and harp combine to offer everything from wildly dense clusters of noise to long passages of cavernous scraping and droning. All this offered up in a rather nice screenprinted cover designed by Simon H. Fell as an homage to constructivist El Lissitzky. At this stage pretty much the only thing still available (so to speak) from the Siwa catalogue."
2/16/2003	Itsumi, Yuji	Free Will	Book / CD	$58.99	PSF	"For the past ten years, Tokyo-based photographer Yuji Itsumi has taken a series of remarkably evocative B&W photos of many underground musicians for the PSF magazine G-Modern. Itsumi's intensely intimate photos capture the musicians off-stage in their everyday lives, but still manage to capture a sure sense of their music. This book compiles Itsumi's work for G-Modern, along with short interviews (in Japanese only) with each of the twenty-nine musicians featured. Those pictured include giants of the Japanese underground like Keiji Haino, Yoshihide Otomo, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Chie Mukai, Kan Mikami, and Masayoshi Urabe, alongside international doyens of free-playing such as Derek Bailey, Arthur Doyle, Charles Gayle, Han Bennink, and Peter Brotzmann. The book comes with a nine-track, hour long CD containing previously unreleased tracks by Derek Bailey, Keiji Haino, Yoshihide Otomo, Kazuo Imai, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Toshiaki Ishizuka, Hiroshi Kawani, Chie Mukai, and Kan Mikami with Masayoshi Urabe." - Alan Cummings. Edition of 500 copies.
9/10/2003	Itsumi, Yuji	Photography Meets Music	Video	$17.99	PSF	Video version of the Yuji Itsumi book. Itsumi Yuji (photography); Ohkuchi Junichiro (piano); Imai Kazou (Live electroacoustic); Urabe Masayoshi (alto sax). 80 minutes.
8/21/2003	Izititiz	Lucky Bird	CD	$9.99	Conduit Creations	Izititiz is Ras Moshe / James Duncan / Carter Thornton / Jesse Wallace / Matt Heyner. "Following their initial tape release on Conduit Creations, The Diaper Band / Moshe’s Mix Vol. I, and subsequent vinyl offering, with our with jazz, New York’s IZITITIZ presents Lucky Bird, a work inspired by such personalities and artifacts as Alan Arenius, the roof of ABC No Rio, Animal, a pet pigeon, Nami Yamamoto’s Freedumb and a set of Hinthouse chimes. The music is envisioned as a soundtrack to the story of a manimal drummer’s search for a mythic box of Cuban Jade hidden in a paper bag. Along the way he meets a pigeon named Lucky Bird with whom he shares an affinity for dancing around socks to drum solos. While they dance, two ghosts appear: Zashiki-Warashi and Kattorimatto, two dead idiots from the clan of Takechi Samurai. Rounding out the group is a flamingo trainer, desperate for any adventure which will help him escape from the Northern authorities. Without revealing too much of the story, expect harrowing episodes such as: *Cupcake captured by the Northern authorities! *Kattorimatto becomes a zombie in an unusual trance ceremony! *Lucky Bird, in an attempt to save the Jade from destruction, eats it! *'The band' is cloned during a search of the ghost town 'Clit Stop Junction'!"